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As doctors assessed the damage after Timmy McDonnell was hit by a drunk driver nearly four years ago, they had one urgent request for his parents.“They said, ‘You have 24 hours, call your church to get someone here for last rites,’’’ C…

WEST LONG BRANCH - St. Rose may have ended one win short of its goal on Wednesday, but the young Purple Roses showed they may have the ingredients to come back and finish the job next season.An underdog St. Rose squad fell in an early four-run hole but rallied to tie the game before a five-run innin…

Neptune-Allentown photo gallery by Ray RichardsonALLENTOWN - Neptune entered this season's state tournament as an afterthought and exited it on Friday with widespread respect after the greatest run by a Scarlet Fliers baseball team in nearly 100 years came to a wild end...

A hitter getting respect from an opponent usually means not seeing many fastballs and getting a steady diet of breaking stuff on the outer half of the plate.A team getting respect means having to frequently face opponents' No. 1 pitchers, who are often lined up specifically to face a chall…

WALL TOWNSHIP - First-year St. Rose baseball coach Rich Lanko doesn't want to get too ahead of himself in the early going, but he has to admit that the group he inherited reminds him an awful lot of some other special Purple Roses teams.Lanko was an assistant under former coach Jim Agnello when…

It was the Shore Conference baseball equivalent of witnessing Halley's Comet streak across the sky or seeing lightning strike the same spot twice.Even after Shore Regional senior second baseman Michael Jelliff achieved a feat on Opening Day that probably hasn't been done in generation…

Fifteen years ago, Mike McGarrell had a vision for a local high school baseball all-star game featuring top underclassmen and a charity component, but then life got in the way.McGarrell, a 1980 graduate of what was then St. Joseph's and is now Donovan Catholic, was diagnosed in 2005 with multip…

After putting up dazzling numbers as a junior, Manasquan left-hander Tommy Sheehan heads into his senior season with a simple goal.The same dominant performances, just more often."A big reason for why my stats weren't as good as I thought they could be last year was an i…